“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
